I have become a big fan of ebooks, I read almost exclusively on my Kindle now. I still buy books because I adore books, and sometimes I even read them, but I have found myself preferring to read on my kindle, which is strange considering a few years ago I wasn’t a fan of ereaders at all. What I have found from owning a Kindle is that I have started to read far more than I used to, my question is why?

I think part of my increased reading is that I have so many books available to me in one place. I might start reading one book and find I’m not in the mood for reading, so I begin another. I never have to make a decision on what I read, or struggle through a book I’m not clicking with, instead all my books are available and I can easily flick in and out of them. I know you can do the same with physical books, but as I read primarily on my commute to and from work and on my lunch break that means if I read a physical book I either have to carry multiple books with me to match my fickle reading moods (which would be weighty) or i have to choose a book and stick with it, something I’m not always good at.

It also means that when I finish one book I can immediately start the next book. This is useful as I do often finish a book during my lunch hour and find myself needing to occupy another half hour or so. I don’t always like to start another book immediately after finishing another, I feel like there is a bookish mourning period of sorts when it comes to finishing a book, but it’s great because when you’re reading a series you always have the next book to hand.

Ebooks are immediately available once you buy them so that book you’ve just had to own after reading the blurb is there for you to devour straight away, which means when you’ve gotten yourself all psyched up for a book you can start it straight away. When you’re waiting for a book to come through the post sometimes the fervour you’ve developed has eased and you’re less excited to begin it instantly. i find that anyway, but I am fickle in my reading whims. I think the fact I can begin a book immediately is good because I do get myself all excited when I find a new book to read, and that excitement can lead me to read quickly and a bit obsessively.

Now, before you go and accuse me of making this post all about my support for ereaders I am going to tell you why sometimes I prefer reading a physical copy of books. I often find reading physical books has become more intimidating for me since becoming an avid Kindle reader, and I think it’s because I can see the actual size of a book before I’ve even started, and for what ever reading I find long books daunting. regardless, though, I do sometimes prefer reading a physical copy of a book for various reasons.

If a book has pictures or maps as reference I almost always prefer reading a physical copy as it is easy to flick back and forth to the images you need. I love Matthew Reilly’s Jack West Jr book series, they are written like action films in that there are quick short sentences, not a lot of description, all about the action, and within them there are pictures. They’re more like diagrams and maps really, and they help to demonstrate what is being written about. you might say they’re unnecessary if a book is written well, but I like these books for having that added help to them, they help me get what’s going on. They are also books which I would always prefer to read physical copies for because it’s hard to flick back to a picture in an ebook.

Fantasy novels tend to be a thing I prefer to read the actual books for, especially if there is a lot of world building going on, because these are the books that have the maps that you keep flicking back to. They are also the books that normally have a glossary of terms at the end when you get confused about the words people are using. I know Kindle has that X-Ray thing for characters, and that it’s easy to follow a link and such for references, but there is something about being able to flick back and forth in a book that is nice.

I suppose this has gotten off of the point a bit, I was trying to write about reading differently in different formats, which this kind of shows I do, but I guess it’s more about how I love my Kindle , but there is something about owning the physical copy of a book. I tend to prefer Hardbacks because they look nicer on my shelf, but to be honest, I just love books in general. For my favourite books I probably own them on my kindle and have a copy sat on my shelf, because I am a firm believer of always having access to your favourite books. I will never give up owning an ereader in some shape or form simply due to the convenience, but I will not commit to being exclusive to one format either, because a kindle does not look as impressive on your book shelf as a bunch of books do. And how else am I meant to force my favourite book on people without having a physical copy to fob off on folks?

It’s like the Broke and the Bookish know how much I love me a good series, even when I’m not aware I’m starting a series, which happens a lot. I’ve tried to think of a variety of different series, and I’ve tried to stick with series where the next book is due out in the next six months (or has already been released and I’ve not gotten around to buying it yet.

I need the third book in this series. I read the first two books so quickly and enjoyed them a lot, way more than I expected so I was disappointed to learn the third book wasn’t out for a good long while.

I only learnt this book was being released a few days ago, but I am so damn excited. I mentioned before that me and one of my best friends first bonded over our love for this book so the excitement of learning about it’s release knows no bounds. We will buy it on the day it is released and devour it as quickly as possible then we will sit and talk about it until something else grabs our attention. Is it 2015 yet?

I am so excited about this book, I’ve been excited about it ever since I finished The Bone Season so I obviously have this on pre-order, I was so annoyed that it didn’t get released at the end of September or whatever the original release date was, it got pushed back. I still have it on pre-order but I am so damn impatient when it comes to waiting for books.

I previously said I wasn’t too sure about The Diviners, but I managed to power through and properly got into it. It was cool and interesting and completely different to anything else I had read at the time. I’m not too sure what’s going to happen in the next book, sometimes you get hints about what the next book is going to be about, this one did not give off too many clues. It was left very open ended. Whenever this comes out though, I will be there buying it, even though I hate the new covers for the book.

So, I loved the first in the Superlatives series, Biggest Flirts. Sure, it wasn’t as good as some of Echols other books, but I enjoyed it all the same. As such, I’m pretty psyched for the next book to come out, sure the books seem predictable, but there is something wonderful about Echols’s writing that will always make me want the next book, and the idea of this series is very fun.

I’ve got a confession to make, although I only read Seraphina a little while ago, I properly can’t remember what happened. I am terrible with having book amnesia when it comes to books in a series, so I’m always having to reread them when a new book is released. No doubt this will be the same, but I know I’m excited for this book. I’m excited for what comes next, even if I can’t remember what happened in the last book.

Because this series of books really surprised me. I didn’t expect to enjoy it as much as I did, I bought it because it sounded vaguely interesting and was on offer on my kindle. Then I found myself really enjoying it so that cliffhanger at the end of the second book pissed me off to no end. I’m telling you, cliffhangers are the worst when you reading an ongoing series.

I have been meaning to get this book for ages, like actually though. I loved the first two books, even thought zombies aren’t really my thing. I found the entire take in this book to be pretty unique, and the writing was really good. I can’t believe I haven’t bought this book yet.

I’m going to be honest, I haven’t read the first Veronica Mars book, but I’m still excited about this book because Veronica Mars. When this book comes out I will buy it, it’s another book I need to buy.

I think there is a theme going on here. I like fantasy novels and they all seem to be a part of series, but anyway. I Loved The Burning Sky, even though it took me a while to get into it, and so when I get around to buying this book, I hope to read it and love it in the same way.

So, I'm bringing this back because I've missed it and because I've been such a rubbish blogger that I'm sure you guys might appreciate hearing my excuses. I've not been posting much both due to both sheer laziness, my forgetting to schedule posts so even when I do have posts written they are just getting left in my drafts folder and also because I've lost some of my motivation. I've fallen into a small reading slump where I'm only reading one or two books a week, which is nothing for me. This then leaves me with nothing to review and feeling unimaginative and unmotivated as I get tempted to repeat my self. I've gotten some discussion posts up recently, which are really more my thoughts and ramblings on a topic but I've enjoyed writing those because I enjoy nothing more than telling people what I think. I haven’t gotten as much written as I’ve wanted to though, and I don’t know what’s causing it.

This week I've been even more distracted than usual because I began my Christmas shopping, I know that dreaded word. Now, before you go accusing me if being a scrooge, I’m not, I like Christmas. I like the Christmas tree and gathering in a cosy warm house with your family eating good food and giving gifts, but going anywhere with shops at Christmas is ridiculous. Everywhere is ridiculous and crowded and all the people pushing. I hate it and it makes me so angry because people tend to suck at this time of year.

A prime example of the rudeness of people at Christmas is my trip to Solihull yesterday. Me and a friend decided to go on a little adventure to shop somewhere we had never been before, this trip was to Solihull as we heard there was both a House of Fraser and a John Lewis, both shops we don’t have local to us. Now, we went on a Saturday, so I expected the crowds of people, especially as we are getting so close to Christmas, what I didn’t expect is people to be quite so rude.

You would be walking along and people wouldn’t move even the slightest if you were walking towards them and the path was crowded. They would cut across you when walking to get to whatever shop they wanted to go to, screw whether or not that could lead to a collision when walking. One woman, I was walking towards her, I attempted to move out of her way and assumed she would move the other way to prevent a collision, as it was really busy  and there was absolutely nowhere else for me to walk so it would be the polite thing to do, but she didn’t even attempt to move. She shoulder barged me instead, like proper American football style it felt like. My friends was shocked, she said it looked like it really hurt, now I was fine, but I was fed up from that point forward, and this happened very early on in my little shopping adventure. I cannot cope with intentionally rude people, if you unintentionally knock into someone you say sorry, I do, but this woman didn’t even react to it. It was ridiculous. And that is my story of anger for the week, I’m sure there will be more as we head into the Christmas period.

Back on to bookish things. As I said. I've only read two books this week and even the second one I've only started and not finished. I don't know what it is. Yes Please was such a different book for me to read, which was really refreshing and I think made me enjoy it more, but by the end I was totally ready for a fun easy read that wasn’t about real people, which is why I started The Glass Magician. I read the first book, The Paper Magician, at the end of last month and really enjoyed it. It was a quick and fun YA fantasy read that I finished in a couple of days, I’m hoping the same will be true of this one. I do love me a good fantasy book, and these books totally make me want to start doing origami. Read and you’ll understand.

I’ve been listening to Foo Fighters Sonic Highways this week, after discovering the documentary on the album on iPlayer. There are five episodes up so far, so watch them if you get a chance. It’s been fun and seriously interesting. Maybe the TV watching is partly why my reading is so slow, there have been a few TV shows which have started up that I’ve been watching, there has been David Attenborough with another wonderful documentary, Life Story. It’s on iPlayer, watch it. Then there has been The Blacklist, Arrow, The Flash and various other shows on Sky which I’ve simply has to watch, so there have been less hours of me sitting around at my laptop unoccupied, could be the cause of some blogging laziness.

This weeks theme from the Broke and the Bookish is all about what characters you wish had gotten the spotlight and had their own book. I don’t know if I necessarily want a book for the characters I’ve chosen, but I think I would have liked to know more about them, gotten a chapter from their perspective or something. I couldn’t think of ten, again, but I went with however many characters I could think of that immediately sprang to mind.

I want to know about the games Haymitch was in and about how he survived, what he was thinking when he won. I want to know what happened to make him the man he was in The Hunger Games, what made him the angry drunk? I know it’s all implied and hinted at, but to actually read and know would be so nice. I just want to learn all about Haymitch because I think he was hard done by in the third book, I wanted more of him because I adore him.

There are so many characters in The Hunger Games I wish had their own story, but the other one who I adored was FInnick Odair, because I know there was a greater story behind him and we only got to see glimpses of it. Finnick was such an interesting character, but that may partly because I find cocky pretty boys interesting, but I wanted to know Finnick, both the face he presented to the world and the real Finnick.

I would like a Marauder’s Era Harry Potter book, as would half the HP fanbase, because I want to learn everything about Rowling’s characters. Even though they died, I would love to read about the first war and everything that happened to make them into the characters of Harry Potter’s era. I want to know about the wizarding world before war broke out, was it always continually brewing this war or was there a peaceful period whilst the marauders were at school?

I loved Mogget in the Abhorsen trilogy, I’d love to know more about him I think. Honestly I’d love of everything in that series, especially with Clariel out, it’s renewed my teenage obsession with these books. I would love to read a book about the Clayr from the Abhorsen series, I would love to read books about life before the darkness and after and the periods in between and just learn about that world a little more. But Mogget, I want to know more about Mogget and the things he would have seen in his long life.

In Daughter of Smoke and Bone you got mere glimpses of him, you heard parts of his story, but not enough. He deserved more of a backstory he came and went too soon for my liking, I know you found out more about him, but I do kind of wish you got more about him, he was such an interesting character. I want to know life from his perspective and why he made the decisions he did, why did he not lead more? Why did he make the decisions he did and keep the secrets he had? Were there more secrets he never had a chance to reveal?

Calicifer was my favourite character in Howl’s Moving Castle, both in the film and the book. I want entire books written about him because he intrigues me. I know it would be difficult to write entire books about the Fire Demon, but I do wish there was more on him, just a scene from his perspective. I don’t know how interesting it would be, but it might quell my curiosity.

I would have loved to have gotten his perspective of things, he was developed wonderfully as a character, but it would have been so nice to see how he viewed the world, especially with his grace. he was so interesting and I feel he never got his full chance to shine and grow as a character.

I can’t think of anymore characters, which annoys me, because I know there are characters in books I wanted more of. I do have a thing where I always want to know more about the fictional worlds, like I would love to know more about the wizarding world in Harry Potter, have it all fleshed out about career options, the education of wizards before they go to school, and how different houses spend their freetime, but I literally can’t think of any more characters I want a book for.

I am not going to tell you how to find time to reread because that is something I struggle with at the moment. I want to reread, but how do you find the time when there are so many new releases? As a book blogger you try and stay up to date with books, you want to review new books for people and tell everyone what you’re reading. There are a ton of books I currently want to reread at the moment, I've even started one, but as a book blogger how do you stay current and relevant when all you want to do is reread old books?

It’s hard to justify rereading, it sometimes feels like a waste of time, despite the enjoyment you get from it, because  I know I can write reviews on books I’ve not reviewed on here before, and can make my rereading a part of my blog in a feature of some sort, but I’m a terrible book reviewer, my immediate response to a book is I like it. Reviews get boring when you like every book you read and I end up trying to force myself to think of intelligent reasons for why I liked a book. So, writing some other feature would make rereading a relevant thing to my blog rather than what sometimes feels like a wasted effort.

I suppose that’s the point isn’t it, you can easily find time to reread, especially if you make it relevant to your blog so the rereading doesn’t feel like a wasted effort. It’s not about needing to find time, it’s feeling comfortable with rereading. I love to reread things, it’s like seeing an old friend, it’s happy and comfortable because you know exactly what’s going to happen.

I don’t need to justify rereading to myself, I know this. Just because I have a book blog doesn’t mean it should control every area of my life. It’s easy to forget that when you want to post things and keep people reading, going over things you’ve already read won’t really interest other people, or at least it can feel like that, yet how many people do you know that love to watch things they’ve seen before, or have read Harry Potter ten million times since the release? Exactly, rereading is not a wasted effort, I only wish I had more hours in the day to read books so I could do it, especially when I’m not on top of my TBR list.

What are everyone’s thoughts on rereading then? I know there has been some convoluted rambling from me here, but I would love to hear (or read) some of your convoluted rambling on the topic.